Volume 7.44 | Nov 20

Blocking Immune Cell Treats New Type of Age-Related Diabetes
Researchers compared the immune systems of healthy mice, those with obesity-related diabetes and those with age-related diabetes. The mice with age-related disease had abnormally high levels of immune cells called T regulatory cells inside their fat tissue. [Press release from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discussing online publication in Nature] Press Release|Video|Abstract

New Sean N. Parker Autoimmune Research Laboratory is Launched at UCSF
A $10 million gift from The Parker Foundation will establish a new research laboratory within the Diabetes Center at UC San Francisco (UCSF) devoted to understanding autoimmunity, in the hopes of laying the groundwork for new treatments for diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to multiple sclerosis to rheumatoid arthritis. [University of California San Francisco] Press Release